I’ve always loved Spider-Man. That being said, his transition to the big screen has been a rocky road over the last several decades. During the 1980s. the defunct Cannon Group had held the rights to the comic but the Israeli-producers of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus initially thought it was a horror movie about aContinue reading “‘No Way Home’ Finds Right Path For Spider-Man Franchise”
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A Bittersweet Mother’s Day
When you lose a person you love, some days hit harder than others. Every day is painful though. You always have that feeling. Today was Mother’s Day and it was hard for me. As I have talked about a few months ago, I lost someone very special to me, Kerry Kerr. We had gone toContinue reading “A Bittersweet Mother’s Day”
There Are No Small Roles And No Small Actors
Mike Hagerty often portrayed blue-collar people mainly because he looked like a blue-collar type of guy. With that burly build, somewhat unkept curly brown hair and brostache, he looked like he was about to say “Da Bears.” On April 29, he passed away at the age of 67. Hagerty was from Chicago and attended theContinue reading “There Are No Small Roles And No Small Actors”
‘Find Me Guilty’ Showcases Vin Diesel’s Acting, Sidney Lumet’s Directing (And Samuel Alito’s Incompetence)
This week, Samuel Alito’s name has been in the news more time than the winter of 2006 when he was confirmed as a Justice on the Supreme Court. As the second appointment by President George W. Bush, Alito was more or less riding Chief Justice John Roberts’ coattails. And that was pretty much the lastContinue reading “‘Find Me Guilty’ Showcases Vin Diesel’s Acting, Sidney Lumet’s Directing (And Samuel Alito’s Incompetence)”
Overturning Roe v. Wade May Be The GOP’s Waterloo
With news this week the U.S. Supreme Court is drafting an opinion that essentially overturns Roe v. Wade, conservatives and especially the Republican Party may be taken a premature victory lap. While the Court hasn’t officially announced it, the brief behind prepared by Justice Samuel Alito seems to show that he and Justices Neil Gorsuch,Continue reading “Overturning Roe v. Wade May Be The GOP’s Waterloo”
Why People Unjustly (And Legitimately) Hate ‘The Last Jedi’
With it being May 4, aka May the Fourth be with you, I’d thought I’d examine one of the most notoriously reviled entries in the Star Wars franchise. No, not The Star Wars Holiday Special. I’m talking about The Last Jedi, the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga. The Last Jedi has become the epitomeContinue reading “Why People Unjustly (And Legitimately) Hate ‘The Last Jedi’”
Julia Roberts’ Performance Keeps ‘Gaslit’ Aglow
The Watergate scandal happened almost 50 years ago. What was initially a low-level breaking and entering case turned into a national scandal that divided people even more and caused a U.S. President to resign. This story has been told before several times, most famously in All the President’s Men. But what has hardly been mentionedContinue reading “Julia Roberts’ Performance Keeps ‘Gaslit’ Aglow”
‘V’ Showed Us Aliens Have A Facist Agenda
Following the success of Star Wars in 1977, movie/television producers and studios went through an explosion of sci-fi related movies and shows. There was Battlestar Galactica, Battle Beyong the Stars and even Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Most of these were poorly received. So, when Kenneth Johnson, who had worked on The Bionic Woman andContinue reading “‘V’ Showed Us Aliens Have A Facist Agenda”
‘Friday The 13th Part 2’ Turns 41 Giving Us Iconic Jason Vorhees
The original Friday the 13th, released in 1980, was really nothing more than a cash grab to piggyback off the success of Halloween. And even though critics savaged it, times have changed and it’s more praised now. And Friday the 13th Part 2 wasn’t much different and citics were just as bad. But times haveContinue reading “‘Friday The 13th Part 2’ Turns 41 Giving Us Iconic Jason Vorhees”
Movies In Which The Protagonists Are Really The Villains
Everyone loves to play the bad guy, but a lot of movies have turned the protagonists, the ones we’re supposed to sympathize with into the villains without us knowing it. I’m not talking about clever movies like Looper or movies that tricked us into believing Dwayne Johnson/The Rock was the good guy in Doom whenContinue reading “Movies In Which The Protagonists Are Really The Villains”
